Motivational Quotes

Fear

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank